Life's Ingredients Detected In Far Off Galaxy
ScienceDaily (Jan. 15, 2008) — Astronomers from Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have detected for the first time the molecules methanimine and hydrogen cyanide --two ingredients that build life-forming amino acids -- in a galaxy some 250 million light years away.
When combined with water, the molecules form glycene, the simplest amino acid and a building block of life on Earth.
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"The fact that we can observe these substances at such a vast distance means that there are huge amounts of them in Arp 220," said Emmanuel Momjian, a former Arecibo astronomer, now at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, N.M. "It is indeed very intriguing to find that the ingredients of life appear in large quantities where new stars and planets are born."
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Life In Space
Of course, there's a remote chance that all of this (the repudiated story from yesterday about a signal from outerspace being found by SETI researchers) could just be intended to distract people from the other big "life in space" story that broke the same day. Naw, couldn't be, that's just paranoia talkin'...
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While it is very cool they've found this in another galaxy, we've been spotting this stuff all over our own galaxy for quite some time. It is our duty as sentient life forms to seek out intelligent life throughout the universe... and to have sex with it. Especially if they have blue skin. Because that's just HOT!
Hell yeah!
Knock, knock. Who's there? Blue.
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